Love Unscripted | Not Your Troy, Not Your Heaven (part 1)

What if the woman you love isn’t yours to save, to burn, or to beg? What if your dreams were never her destination?

In this Alchemy episode, Tim & LeeAnna dive into the first of two of Yeats’s most emotionally raw poems – No Second Troy and He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven – to explore the wreckage of unrequited love, the fine line between worship and resentment, and why offering your dreams might not be enough when she’s already burning down cities. Spoiler: this one’s gonna hurt in all the right ways.

As with all our podcasts, this episode is ad-free – because when you're unpacking Yeats, heartbreak, and the smoldering remains of emotional overinvestment, the last thing you need is an ad for window replacements. You're welcome.

Correction: when Tim spoke about the giant model of a shark or whale in the graveyard of the Cathedral in Limerick, it was in fact Londonderry. Apologies to both Limerick and Londonderry. He also managed to mispronounce W. B. Yeats' name around a thousand times.

No Second Troy by W. B. Yeats here Writers’ prompts for this podcast are here. Submission page for Effigy Press here. Effigy Press here.

Intro music: brighter days by Oliver Massa - License code: S4QNBRVN0S5MTNW4 https://uppbeat.io/t/oliver-massa/brighter-days Outro music: nightdrive by mood-maze - License code: OGGKCMVJLUMOBW5P https://uppbeat.io/t/mood-maze/nightdrive. Or, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NZsJWoGZ9A